Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update

It just so happens a good number of the MoFi's I bought were made without the digital conversion step: the three Ry Cooder's, for instance.

But ya know, a lot of original mastering jobs used an intermediary copy tape as the source---what's called a production or safety master---not the original 2-track mixdown tape. A MoFi digital file---made off a 1st or even 2nd generation analogue tape---may sound better than does the tape the original lacquer was cut from.

MoFi claims they found the above to be true, but they didn't disclose that fact to the public, knowing that audiophiles would then perhaps not buy their LP's. A lot of them are no longer going to, that's for sure. 

You don’t have to have intelligence to be an audiophile and this case proves it. So many so called audiophiles/reviewers/analog purists thought the albums they bought sounded excellent until they found out that some of the albums were cut with DSD. Then these so called experts/purists/audiophools who bought these great sounding albums all of a sudden thought they sounded like sh$t. 
 

When does it matter what process is used to cut an album/cd? Don’t you let your ears do the listening, not somebody else’s propaganda? 
I got rid of all of my analog products and albums when dsd/hires digital was perfected because I heard better sq thru these formats than analog. The experts/analog audiophools did too until somebody told them dsd was involved. Glad I’m not part of that audiophool group (analog).

There were a fair number of negative reviews of MoFi Lp’s before the digital step was revealed. Michael Fremer was removed from MoFi’s promo list because of his panning of certain MoFi titles.

Analogue Productions, Speakers Corner, Intervention Records, and a couple dozen more companies continue to make outstanding LP reissues (mostly pure analogue, if you care about that), and some contemporary artists make a point of recording and pressing LP’s to the highest audiophile standards: Gillian Welch, for one. She owns her own LP lacquer-cutting lathe (a VMS 80 with Ortofon amplifiers)---the first step in LP production, and her Acony Records LP’s sound stunning.

@p05129 +1 I just couldn't stand the snap, crackle and pop and switched to SACD and DVD-A a longtime ago.

Hard to find original analogue tapes in decent condition now. Most were transferred to DSD forty - odd years ago.

Anyway you can get a full refund, move up to 128, 264, 512 DSD.

We don't want a world in which commercial companies are deliberately dishonest.

Ergo if any is deliberately dishonest then there must be punishment in order to deter.

So, it MoFi were deliberately dishonest, exemplary damages are appropriate

Simple, really.